348 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGEI>. 



Yarrow. ? . (r. I. (f. 2.) 



Atso called Nose-bleed, Milfoil and Thousand. leaf. 

 - Descript.'] It hath many long leaves spread upon the 

 ground, finely cut, and divided into many small parts ; 

 its tlowers arc white, but not all of a whiteness, and 

 stayed in knots, upon divers green stalks which rise from 

 among the leaves. 



Place."] It is frequent in all pastures. 



TimeJ] It flowereth Ia(e, even at the end of August. 



Government and Virtues.] It is under the influence of 

 Venus. An ointment of them cures wounds, and is most 

 .fit for such as have inflammations ; it being an herb of 

 Dame Venus, it stops the terms in women, being boiled 

 in white wine, and the decodlion drank ; as also the 

 bloody.flux ; the ointment of it is not only good for 

 green wounds, but also for ulcers and fistulas, especially 

 such as abound with moisture. It slays the shedding of 

 hair, the head being bathed with the deco6tion of it ; in- 

 wardly taken it helps the retentive faculty of the stomach ; 

 it helps the running of the reins in men, and the whites 

 in women, and helps such as cannot hold their water j 

 and the leaves chewed in the mouth easeth the tooth-ach ; 

 and these virtues being put together, shew the herb to be 

 drying and binding. Achilles is supposed to be the first 

 that left the virtues of this herb to posterity, having 

 learned of his master Chiron, the Centaur; and certainly 

 a very profitable herb it is in cramps, and therefore called 

 Militaris. . , 



